Los Olivos Spa Oaxaca

... desire to learn. I am becoming the latter.<br><br>We walked by the Santa Domingo Church, but I guess you need to take a tour to get inside, and the male half of our little caravan had already done so. Jurni and I have time anyway, and will probably double back another day. Jurni picked up a little leather purse that was hand-painted for the raging sum of 10 pesos (about 75 cents) but later left it on a taxi. So much for her first souvenir. We ran into the only other ...

... that there werent souviner sellers everywhere like at the other pyramids. So you could actually walk around and look at everything without being hassled. Once done at the site I ended up back in town and had a few hours to kill before I meet Brendan. I found this market which had some of the best smelling food ever. I decided to eat something, and asked a lady for the same dish this guy was eating at here counter. Probably not the best idea, because Ive had the runs since! I ...

... gringos", pshh - tourists. We decided to divide and conquer, since the road we were waiting on was actually closed due to construction. Eventually I saw AT talking to a man down the street about where we had been waiting, and he waved me over. I walked down, and couldn't find him anywhere. Then, I noticed he was standing inside the bus that had been sitting in front of the ...

... Etla there were no olive groves, no vineyards, no fields of lavender, no hallmark chirping of the "cigales" and no high prices so typical of Provence.<br><br>By the way I still think the best and most economical way to enjoy Provence in the month of July is to do as I did in 1980 and take a language study course at the Université de Provence (or Université de Aix en Provence) either as a credit or non-credit course. The all-inclusive package of language study ...

... Neal still following a liquid diet, we decided to scout out the "chocolate factory" where we heard good reports regarding the milk shakes. After a few wrong turns we found the street and eventually the right place. It was a new and unexplored section or Oaxaca for us - closer to the "real" economy and away from the "tourist" economy -where more of the Oaxaquenos work, eat, marry and live their lives. The store wasn't ...

... they had quite the assortment of breads, one kind has a womans head inserted and is sticking out. This is called dead bread. Not sure why. Hot Chocolate was also oredered from a street vendor! As we were eating our breakfast, a local woman came buy and recommended a local food vendor, so we went and had a chicken tamale for breakfast as well! From here we booked a cemetary tour for the next night, thinking that the official day would be the ...

... for travel, for Mexico, for the whole wide world. In Chihuahua, I had a dream where I blurted out that travel is what I want to do with the rest of my life. (Even in the dream, the next word out of my mouth was "how?".) There's something I feel when I'm moving that I don't get while standing still, and I'm mourning the loss of it. I had planned on staying in Oaxaca one or two months, but, for whatever reason, I don't think it's meant ...

Next day I payed a trip to four important places in the Valles Centrales. I did not know that the trip will be more like a promotion trip, not really very professionally organized...but nevermind. In Tule, there is the widest tree trunk in the world...magnificient. In Teotitlán del Valle, a village with a ...

... was Santa Domnigo church, it was amazing inside, so much gold everywhere and amazing carvings. We tried to find the Botanical Gardens as I read they were free, but when we got there they wanted 10$ US each - to see a load of cacti, no way! Oaxaca is a really pretty and peaceful town in the mountains and I would recommend a stop off here if you get a chance.

The loss of my passport in Vera Cruz and the information that I'd been given about how long it was going to take to replace it, was very unsettling, to say the least. So I did some checking and discovered that there is a US Consulate Office in Oaxaca, which was closer to Puerto Escondido than Acapulco. FYI, it would take about 8-9 hours to drive to Acapulco as opposed to about 5 to Oaxaca. So rather than waiting to go with the RV to Acapulco, we ...